-The dominant role for women was first to make a pure bride for an honorable man.

-Women did not have education in post colonial time

-They cook, clean, and maintain the household.

"Even as a little boy he had resented his father’s failure and weakness, and even now he still remembered how he had suffered when a playmate had told him that his father was agbala. That was how Okonkwo first came to know that agbala was not only another name for a woman, it could also mean a man who had taken to title "(Achebe 13).

"His mother and sisters worked hard enough, but they grew women’s crops, like coco-yams, beans and cassava. Yam, the king of crops, was a man’s crop. " (Achebe 22-23)